. Annual report of the Street Dept. of the City of Boston. streets,Cornhill, Hanover street, Tremont street and Tremont row andWashington street. The building of the South Union Station has resulted in ageneral remodelling of the sewer system in this part of the sewers in Beach, East, Essex and Summer streets have beencombined and a new outlet sewer built in Summer-street exten-sion. About 700 feet of the interceptor in Cove street has been re-built and carried around the head house of the station, and avery large sewer built from Cove street across the TerminalCompanys land, a short
. Annual report of the Street Dept. of the City of Boston. streets,Cornhill, Hanover street, Tremont street and Tremont row andWashington street. The building of the South Union Station has resulted in ageneral remodelling of the sewer system in this part of the sewers in Beach, East, Essex and Summer streets have beencombined and a new outlet sewer built in Summer-street exten-sion. About 700 feet of the interceptor in Cove street has been re-built and carried around the head house of the station, and avery large sewer built from Cove street across the TerminalCompanys land, a short distance north of Mt. Washingtonavenue, which is designed to take the sewage of Kneeland andHarvard streets districts. On account of the low grade at whichthe railroad subway is designed across Mt. Washington avenue,this sewer had to be very much depressed. The crown of thesewer being at Grade 3, and as there was not sufficient weightof material over the sewer to resist tidal pressure, a particularform of construction was adopted, the arch of the sewer. Street Department — Sewer Division. 249 being held clown by bent rails which are carried over the sewerand bolted down on each side of the sewer to the pile capsunderneath. Future Work in this District. The most important work which is contemplated for the comingyear in the city proper, is the completion of the terminal sewersbefore mentioned, and continuing the large sewer under the rail-road yard up Kneeland and South streets from the interceptor toHarvard-street sewer. A district regulator will also be built on the interceptor nearSummer street, and a regulator in Kneeland street, near Covestreet, connecting with the interceptor by a small brick sewer inKneeland street. At the request of the Terminal. Company aportion of the intercepting sewer near the location of the gas-holders at Federal-street bridge will be rebuilt, in order to enablethe city to abandon the portion of the existing interceptor whichcrosses under the pro
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